From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 11:34:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B8337B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0LJYUV99852 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200201211934.g0LJYUV99852@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: spreading system across four fast scsi disks From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:34:30 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems that, at long last my system is coming! The requisition now sits in the business office awaiting a purchase order (or however such things happen :). Anyway, the highlights are dual AMD 1900 MP 2G DDR sony 21" buckling spring keyboard with control key where God meant it to Be 4x 9g cheetah 1500rpm U160 scsi drive 2x18g cheetah 1500rpm U160 scsi drive no smoke pellets :( Anyway, the FreeBSD installation will run across the 4 small drives, with the two large drives for catching data as models run. But how to divide the four drives? I'm assuming that /, /usr, swap, and /home all go on different drives (and that swap really gets its own drive, or at least stuff that wouldn't get hit on in high performance operations). What about /var, though? The purpose of the split is so that the heads can be in places likely to be used simultaneously. Would anything in / oustside of /usr get touched much while a fortran program was running? Would /var get touched more than every few minutes? Does it matter anyway? :) I assume the program will be on /home (which I figure to give all but a little of its drive) and relying on libraries (fortran, imsl, etc.) in /usr. hawk, drooling in anticipation . . . -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message